This story is enough to pull at anyone’s heartstrings.
Last month on the evening of October 10th, Tameika Curtis and her sister Typhani Wilkerson headed to the market to buy some juice and carpet cleaner. They never returned home.
While driving, a Mercedes plowed in to their Acura from behind killing both mothers and the driver’s two children, a one-year-old infant and 13 year old daughter. The crash also killed one of the passengers in the Mercedes.
Sadly, both mothers left behind 10 children in total that have been split up in to three separate households belonging to family members. This past Thanksgiving was the first time they were all reunited. The children range in age from 3 months to 15 years, and were able to eat, play and wrestle together. They also looked at pictures of their mothers and shed tears. Three fathers of the surviving children are doing all they can to make sure the children stay as close as possible.
“We want to have them for dinner together because that’s what they’ve normally done,” said Lloyd Hardy, the father of Curtis’s two oldest children to The Washington Post. He also mentioned, “It’s important because we’re concerned about the kids’ mental health and well-being.”
Trying to maintain normalcy for the children is proving to be difficult. The fathers are trying to orchestrate weekly visits for the children but it’s hard when only one father has access to a vehicle. Somehow they are making it work for now.
Friends and family stepped up financially to cover funeral costs, and have been helping the best they can. Hardy says that the emotional support is even more important right now than the financial help.
“Like they say, ‘It takes a village,’ ” Hardy said. “We’re trying to make sure we have that.”
If you would like to donate to the family, a fundraising web page has been set up here.
